Mi Speaks 2.0
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Mi Speaks 2.0 reads books, PDFs, and articles aloud on your iPhone. It adds 28 on-device voices and works offline, so nothing gets uploaded.
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Mi Speaks is back with a second launch, and this one is aimed squarely at people who want text turned into speech without sending their reading off to a server. The app reads books, articles, and PDFs aloud using neural voices on the device itself. No upload step. No cloud dependency. Even airplane mode is fine.
The headline addition in 2.0 is 28 Studio Voices, split between American and British accents. They’re generated entirely on the iPhone, which is the whole point here: privacy first, friction second. There’s a practical angle too. You can import a PDF, follow along on the actual page as the spoken words light up, jump straight to any chapter, and prepare a whole document so it keeps playing after the screen locks.
That makes Mi Speaks feel less like a demo of audio tech and more like a reading tool built for people who actually use documents. The app’s free tier has no length limit, so the core reading experience isn’t boxed in. Premium is where the Studio Voices live.
This is the second launch from Mi Speaks, and the product is leaning hard into a simple pitch: useful speech, local processing, and no mysterious trip through the internet. On Product Hunt, that kind of restraint can look almost radical.
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On-device AI is the rare hype cycle that actually earns its keep. If a reading app can work offline and keep the text on the phone, that’s not a feature checkbox — that’s common sense with better branding. The industry could use fewer cloud costumes and more products that do the job quietly.
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